The Legacy of 'Scream' on the Big Screen

This week, we're wrapping up a month of Halloween program with a very special conversation about the legacy of one of most resilient horror franchises of all time, Scream. When Wes Craven's movie was released in 1996, the horror genre was in a bit of a dormant phase. That changed rather quickly with this comedic riff on the horror movie formula, a meta take on the genre about a ghost-faced killer stalking teenagers in a small town. We showed the movie at the Playhouse a few days before Halloween. After the movie, we had some wonderful guests onstage to help contextualize the movie's legacy. Cary Woods, the producer of Scream, local filmmaker Sam Pezzullo, and Ashley Cullins, a journalist for the Ankler whose new book Your Favorite Scary Movie chronicles the history of the franchise.